Building Reading Comprehension Habits: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities

by Jeff Zwiers

Middle and high school coaches and content teachers: Here are great suggestions for teaching comprehension skills to students at varied reading levels and from different cultures and linguistic backgrounds.

This second edition of Jeff Zwiers' bestseller features more than 80 classroom-tested, research-based ideas. These engaging activities are organized around six strategies of reading comprehension that need to become habits:

Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing
Connecting to background knowledge
Making inferences and predictions
Generating and answering questions
Understanding and remembering word meanings
Monitoring one's own comprehension

You'll also find 35 reproducible graphic organizers and variations on the activities to help support English learners, struggling readers, and other students who need extra support.

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Genres: Education, Teaching

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jess Sherwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful book, but only in terms of the graphic organizers. I would also argue that a lot of the activities are more catered for middle school aged children, and not really high school. Granted, I can't hate on a book too bad for some graphic organizers-- it does have my favorite story map!

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is most useful for its printables and blank graphic organizers. It falls short on everything else, really. Everything else in here can be found online, but it's my go-to book when I need an organizer in a hurry.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've used this on many occasions to help struggling readers and to improve reading process lessons.